Help us build AI under our own control — support the Brainfusion fundraiser

We want to build the future of AI under our own control — without cloud giants. Help us build a Mac that enables privacy and independence. Brainfusion wants to run larger language models locally, so that our services become smarter and faster without leaving a single line of code or data. We need our own … Continue reading “Help us build AI under our own control — support the Brainfusion fundraiser”

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What else can we believe?

A Formula 1 commentator who says “most often”, a dictionary that follows the street, a chatbot that nods it — the same mechanism everywhere: what is often repeated is taken to be true. A thought exercise about language, propaganda and how an AI chatbot actually works just like a human.

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IPFS challenges with web 2.0

A video loading directly from IPFS works fine – until you share it on LinkedIn and Bad Gateway appears. Six places where the decentralized web collides with the infrastructure around it: previews, filters, legislation, and the question of what permanent actually means.

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How can you use AI?

AI is not a magic wand or a threat – it is a tool. How we use it to write code, check that everything really works and monitor our servers. Plus: why those strange AI videos show exactly where the pitfall is.

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Alternative news, critically assessed — and the AI ​​bulldozer

I listened to an episode of this week V for Valentine — and as is often the case, one sentence stuck with me. Not from a grand geopolitical argument, but from a seemingly casual sidestep about AI. This blog is about that sentence, about how to critically assess a source, and about the difference between … Continue reading “Alternative news, critically assessed — and the AI ​​bulldozer”

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The VPN that doesn’t see anything about you (and why that’s the whole point)

Why your VPN refuses at exactly the wrong time You are in Switzerland, want to watch the eight o’clock news via the Dutch public broadcaster, put your VPN on a Dutch server — and are told that the service is “not available in your region”. Exactly what you use the VPN for goes wrong. How … Continue reading “The VPN that doesn’t see anything about you (and why that’s the whole point)”

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